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The importance of HMI interfacing in business processes – The RFI Application Case: a new way of testing the On-Board Subsystem ERTMS
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Summary - The Driver Interface System (DIS) is an automatic robotic system developed by RFI with the goal of automating the execution of test sequences aimed at demonstrating the compliance of ERTMS... leggi tutto
Evaluating market attractiveness of railway car repair companies based on expert analysis
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IntroductionThe article considers the economic attractiveness evaluation methodology of railway car repair companies. The main stages of this methodology include determining evaluation criteria, each... leggi tutto
The stable crossing of the Strait of Messina. Elements of reflection for the design of the multi-span bridge
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Summary - On 27 August 2020 the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT) appointed a Working Group (WG) composed of high-profile technical-institutional professionals to provide the elements... leggi tutto
Long and heavy freight trains in operation: analysis on the strength of couplings and test evidences on thermal effects during braking
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Summary - The so-called heavy freight trains (over 1600 t), sometimes even long (740-750 m), are now among the leaders of the future of rail transport of goods. The aim of this paper is to analyse,... leggi tutto
Effects of ships’ dimension on emissions of container and cruise fleets
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Summary - The paper approaches freight and passengers fleets, affected by naval gigantism, to investigate its energetic and environmental effects. Among the emerging trends, we encounter the increase... leggi tutto
Migration to ERTMS for dense traffic lines: investigation methodologies and application to the Stockholm Citybanan case study
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Summary - Capacity of infrastructure in Railway depends on several factors, between them Control Command and Signalling (CCS) systems aim at providing improved operation by keeping constant safety... leggi tutto
Horizontal Building Information Modeling: the Croatian railway Gradec-Sveti Ivan Žabno case study
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Summary - According to UNI 11337, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of creating and managing information about a building throughout its life cycle. One of the fundamental results of... leggi tutto
An example of instability in processes of transport innovations: rise and fall of the Diesel car in Europe
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Summary - In a market, where two typologies of cars are competing with each other, it happens sometimes that one of them, which is innovative and growing, at a certain point undergoes a decline,... leggi tutto
Estimation of the propagation of delays: comparison between analytical methodologies and simulation approaches in the case study of the line “Direttissima” Rome-Florence
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Summary - The aspects related to the frequency of the service, travel time and punctuality are becoming increasingly important for passenger satisfaction and the expected level of quality. In fact,... leggi tutto
Train derailment verification using analytical relations and empirical formula
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Summary - The derailment of a railway vehicle may be attributed to different causes and may occur through the overturning of a vehicle, the lateral displacement of a track, wheel climb, or gauge... leggi tutto

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Optical sensors for the analysis of pantograph-catenary interaction
2016
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Summary - In the present paper, the advantages of the use of optical sensors, and in particular sensors based on FBG (Fibre Bragg Grating), for the analysis of dynamical interaction between... read all
Capacity versus punctuality assessment procedures and accessibility measures for rail networks
2015
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Summary - The article provides a review and a practi- cal comparison of capacity and punctuality assessment methodologies; it also identifies and evaluates a manage- able and streamlined approach to... read all
Automated People Movers with rope traction: engineering and modelling an innovative hybrid solution to optimise energy use
2015
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Summary - At the beginning of the 21st century, several scientific studies drew attention to the unsustainability of the massive use of fossil fuels as the main global source of energy and this led... read all
Scheduling algorithms for rail operations and the automatic generation of timetables: application for railway capacity and perturbation evaluation
2015
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Summary - The paper presents a tool for the assessment of the capacity of railway networks. This tool includes a first definition level that can be considered as microscopic, which permits train-runs... read all
Optimal location for bike parking lots: the case study of Palermo
2015
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Summary - The lack of parking spaces for bicycles is one of the main issues that many cities face. A proper planning of a bike station network is necessary in order to optimize the whole urban system... read all
The new high speed railway station of Bologna
2015
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Summary - The paper presents the new high-speed rail- way station in Bologna: a great and innovative work inte- grated into a large infrastructure project of reconfiguration and upgrading of the rail... read all
Selection of the optimum exploitation scenario for an interurban railway corridor by the help of mathematical models
2015
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Summary - Throughout the world, the overwhelm- ing majority of railway corridors concern mixed train operation. Express and local passenger trains along with freight trains are routed on the same... read all
The energy consumption of trains in operation: simulation, a methodology for the analysis and influence of the driving style
2015
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  Summary - The paper proposes an analysis methodology of energy consumptions in the railway field, presenting a comparison between an analytical calculation model and some measurements. It is... read all
Forecast of passengers demand on HS rail services: a system of models
2015
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Summary - This article describes the activities carried out for the development of a support system for the fore- casting of demand and the planning of HS railway services (lines, timetables and... read all
Methodologies for the hauled mass increase of freight trains in accordance with Fiche UIC 421
2015
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Summary - The current version of Fiche UIC 421 on the interoperability of freight trains is characterised by an approach, called "relative", for the purposes of defining new configurations of trains... read all

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